Sheetal Bodkhe

Department of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

Publications

• Original Article   
  Low HDL is not associated with Coronary Heart Disease in Non-diabetic Agrarian Rural Community in Central India
  Author(s): Sheetal Ingle, Sumedh U Jajoo*, Ulhas N Jajoo, Sheetal Bodkhe, Subodh S Gupta, Bharti A Taksande and Anjali Bhatt
  
  Background & objectives: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the disease of urbanisation. However, the recent evidence suggests that CHD is becoming more prevalent in low socioeconomic group, including rural areas. The role of lipids and lipoproteins in pathogenesis of CHD factors is well established. Methods: We performed a case-control study to determine association of dyslipidaemia with CHD in individuals above 60 years residing in the rural community of central India. Successive consenting nondiabetic subjects who are diagnosed to have definite CHD (electrocardiographically defined; exercise test and echocardiographically/angiographically confirmed) but are not on statins were enrolled (cases n=41). Subjects with matched age group, gender and socioeconomic status, with no evidence of CHD, nondiabetic and not on statin,.. Read More»